GA4GH and ELIXIR Release Beacon API v1 with increased security measures

ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced the release of the first genomic data interoperability standard from the GA4GH 2018 Strategic Roadmap.

Global network of Beacons lighting up the world of genomic data

The Beacon Project has released new Beacon API v0.4 specifications to provide greater search functions and richer search results.

Beacon publication at Nature Biotechnology

Federated discovery and sharing of genomic data using Beacons

Marc Fiume, Miroslav Cupak, Stephen Keenan, Jordi Rambla, Sabela de la Torre, Stephanie O. M. Dyke, Anthony J. Brookes, Knox Carey, David Lloyd, Peter Goodhand, Maximilian Haeussler, Michael Baudis, Heinz Stockinger, Lena Dolman, Ilkka Lappalainen, Juha Törnroos, Mikael Linden, J. Dylan Spalding, Saif Ur-Rehman, Angela Page, Paul Flicek, Stephen Sherry, David Haussler, Susheel Varma, Gary Saunders and Serena Scollen